A Chantilly small bowl, circa 1735. Photo Sotheby's

with a shaped everted rim, painted in the Kakiemon style with flowering plants, a border of stylised flowering branches around the footrim; 5.3cm., 2in. Estimate 1,000 — 1,500 GBP. Lot Sold: 2,625 GBP

NOTE: This shape may have been intended as a very small mortar as its shape echoes that of a larger mortar (11cm high) illustrated by Genviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly, 1996, p. 112, top left

Sotheby's. The Evill/Frost Collection III. London | 16 Jun 2011 www.sothebys.com